Conor McGregor & Jake Gyllenhaal

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Conor McGregor is a mixed martial arts fighter, businessman, and actor. Jake Gyllenhaal is an actor. Conor and Jake join the Armchair Expert to discuss what their experience was collaborating to remake Roadhouse, how promoting a movie is different than promoting a fight, and what the motivation was for Conor to learn mixed martial arts as a young man. Conor, Jake, and Dax talk about what it’s like growing up in hypermasculine environments, how they approach failure, and what it’s like raising children as a fighter. Conor and Jake explain what training for a fight does for your physical health, what it takes to create believable fight scenes, and how much they love being creators. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert. I'm
0:04.0	I'm joined by Monica Padman.
0:05.8	Hi.
0:06.8	We have a rare occurrence.
0:09.0	Occasionally we'll interview two people at the same time. It's pretty rare but it happens.
0:15.0	And it also marks back-to-back episodes where we were out on the ground somewhere else interviewing people.
0:22.0	Out of our safety zone. Out of the attic.
0:24.4	In this case we were at a hotel in Austin, Texas.
0:27.2	That's right. And it'll come up in the fact check what all we did while we were there.
0:31.1	Yeah. But this is Jake Jillin Hall and Connor
0:34.4	McGregor. Jake is an Academy Award nominated actor and Connor McGregor is a
0:39.2	multi-weight UFC champion entrepreneur. He's the only person to hold belts in two different weight classes.
0:44.0	Fascinating human being and he's never done a podcast.
0:46.8	Yes, this was his first podcast which was super fun.
0:49.6	Yes. I'm tempted to say as a caveat that my hope and aim for this episode was to be able to connect
0:56.6	with Conner and get him to trust me and explore some maybe more emotional things that are not readily discussed with him.
1:07.0	So I guess I got a little self-conscious like, I think as you're hearing it, you'll hear a broier side of me.
1:12.0	Oh, interesting.
1:13.0	And I don't know why I want to just flag that going in,
1:16.0	but I hope people give me a little benefit of the doubt
1:18.0	and know that I'm trying to get somewhere.
1:20.0	Yeah, yeah.
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